This is not just a farewell to France's overreach, it's a bold step toward a more equitable and empowered West Africa, writes ...

Rather than a particular style of cooking – though cooking meat over coals is a national pastime – Cape Town is all about ...

Less than a third of Niger’s vast territory has internet access, so the West African country is betting on satellite ...

New Resolute Mining (RSG) chief executive Chris Eger will not be travelling to Mali any time soon. This is understandable ...

As Africa’s Sahel region has replaced the Middle East as the epicenter of jihadism, young men are flocking to the cause. They ...

The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali on Saturday, has killed 50 people, a local official said on ...

At least 48 people–including several women and a child–died last Saturday in Western Mali. They were killed in a gold mine collapse, according to local sources which stressed that the search for ...

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region—notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger—have put pressure on western ...

An accident in Mali's Kayes region has reportedly resulted in the deaths of 43 people, primarily women, following the collapse of an artisanal gold mine. The incident occurred near Kenieba, as ...

At least 48 people, most of them women, have reportedly died after an illegal open-pit gold mine collapsed in the western ...

Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said. The accident took place near the town of Kenieba ...

A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kenieba district where the accident occurred. It is the ...